Why is an NHS trust offering reparations for slavery links?

Why is an NHS trust offering reparations for slavery links?

Our healthcare service must focus on the important task of treating patients

Scottish NHS Board to Apologise and Offer Reparations Over Historic Slavery Links

A major Scottish hospital is planning to make reparations to Jamaica and Africa to acknowledge its historic 18th century links to slavery. NHS Lothian, which provides health care services in Edinburgh, East Lothian, Mid Lothian, and West Lothian is planning the reparations to make amends for its 300-year-old slave trade links. A report, based on over two years of research and funded by the NHS Lothian Charity, claimed that the Royal Infirmary of…